Letting Go

love struggles in parental hand

constricted, unable to grow.

slipping through the cracks like time's sand;

take a chance, and let it go.

young hearts beat fast all aflutter.

jumping precipices, face aglow.

never thinking of their mother,

only knowing they must go.

distance, and time adjust the clocks

arresting life's oh so swift flow.

Familially bouyed above rocks

more swiftly on currents they go.

what once seemed to be containment

now supports, with one hand below.

learning, in loving contentment.            

past hurts are released, let them go.

youth looks to their future forward,

the elder back to the joys they know.

but memory jumps the precipice

elders lost in gray fog,  let go.

role reversals are painful  tricks,

the child taking parent in tow.

all but our love withers and kicks,

in life's struggle to - let go.                                                                      

kyrille © 2012 Tamera Dobbins